Prolepsis

Prolepsis, a figure of speech in which a future act or development is represented as if already accomplished or existing. The following lines from John Keats’s“Isabella” (1820), for example, proleptically anticipate the assassination of a living character:

So the two brothers and their murdered manRode past fair Florence

The word may also refer to the anticipation of objections to an argument, a tactic aimed at weakening the force of such objections.